Category: Media and Journalism
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Orange County Register outsources production to India
A salutary tale from the US. Outsource to India, says the deputy editor of the Orange County Register, California’s fifth-largest newspaper. On a one-month trial basis, Mindworks Global Media, an India-based company, will copy-edit some of the Register’s stories and lay out pages for a community newspaper at the same company that owns the Register.…
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Why Newspapers Must Embrace RSS
As an aside to my post on Jeff Jarvis, Felix Salmon has a good post over at Portfolio.com. Salmon is referring to a recent report from Forrester. The main thing I’d try to communicate to the newspaper-industry readers of the Forrester report is that RSS and blogs are not unfortunate necessities, they’re one of your…
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Jeff Jarvis at the Guardian and the future of journalism
Jeff links to two videos of him talking with staff at the Guardian about the future direction of the news organisation. As ever he is refreshing to watch, equally so as his writing, which I have been reading now for seven years. Unfortunately many of my colleagues in the industry (in various firms) are slow…
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Gayle Killelea on journos
In an article about Irish print journalists not applauding Ahern’s speech to Congress, Gayle Killilea noted the following: “Even worse, there is a growing tendency not to bother contacting the subject of the story at all, which goes against basic, rudimentary, journalistic ethics.” Unfortunately, before writing her diatribe, it seems she did not bother to…
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Editing world news
I don’t blog much about work, mainly because there is no set conditions by which we blog. And also because text sub-editing doesn’t involve much in the way of newsiness. Yesterday though I edited our two world pages for the first time. It was an interesting day, though Sunday can be slow I guess. From…
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Mahon Tribunal traffic
As a result of Ahern’s announcement, traffic to the Mahon Tribunal wiki has surged. I guess I should welcome colleagues from the BBC, Associated Newspapers, The Guardian, News International (Times), Sky News and the The Washington Post. PS. I should ask Sadie Gray to perhaps contact me to clear up a number factual inaccuracies in…
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Two questions…
On Friday’s Late Late show, Eamon Dunphy repeatedly pointed to an article by Gene Kerrigan in the Sunday Independent of March 23 . (It was, incidentally, a very good article). 1. Why can I not find this article on the Independent’s website? 2. Why did Eoghan Harris replace Gene Kerrigan on the back page of…
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RTE coverage
Hmm. Why do I get the feeling RTE are not giving this story the coverage it deserves. People are bored with the tribunal and Ahern? Yea right.
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The Atlantic website
Via Jim Fallows comes news that the Atlantic, an excellent magazine I have subscribed to for many years, is opening its archives online. Twill be opened up tomorrow, and is definitely worth a look.
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Google passes ITV1
Another moment to remember, when Google ad revenue outstripped ITV1 ad revenue in Britain. Google pulled in total revenues of £327m compared with an estimated £317m for all of ITV1’s output during the same period between July and September 2007. The report said the new figures offered a significant milestone as it was the first…